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EIT Food to Incorporate Foundation Earth with Aim to Develop Standards for Environmental Impact Data

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August 5, 2024

Non-profit organization Foundation Earth has been integrated into EIT Food, which is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. 

The integration of Foundation Earth into EIT Food will provide the expertise needed for advocacy work to develop internationally-recognized standards surrounding the use of data to assess the environmental impact of food.

The International Alliance for Food Impact Data, convened by EIT Food, will have the mandate of developing internationally adopted and accepted standards for the environmental scoring for food. The alliance will initially consider the EU policy landscape, in the recognition that any future standards mandated by the EU will likely be of the highest level, ensuring that companies and supply chains can apply one standard for compliance across multiple geographies.

“Environmental data is a key lever of change for food systems transformation,” says EIT Food Chief Executive Richard Zaltzman. “We are absolutely delighted to integrate the knowledge and capacity of Foundation Earth into EIT Food, which will enable us to take strides towards our shared mission of transforming the food system with credibly collected, measured and evaluated impact data. This will form the basis for decision-making across the food and drink industry, policy, future proofing innovation in our sector and enabling us to reduce the environmental impact of the entire food system. EIT Food has been working closely with Foundation Earth since its inception and we are excited to accelerate the impact we can have across the continent by building a fresh alliance that delivers clear standards and addresses confusion that is currently hampering the environmental scoring of food and drink.”

Foundation Earth launched in 2021 to develop a system for the environmental scoring labeling of food and drink products. It has won support for its work from a coalition of producers, scientists, campaigners, charities, technology partners and politicians who share the foundation’s vision for a more environmentally-friendly food system.

Environmental impact data is key to transforming food systems. It can be used to enable informed decision-making across the value chain, for environmental and sustainability reporting, and in the development of front-of-pack labeling for consumers. A growing number of different methodologies and labels are in use globally, but they all adhere to different standards, meaning they aren’t comparable and it is difficult for policy-makers, companies and consumers to assess the actual environmental impact of different food products. There has also been a lack of coordination across the EU and no management by an EU-level organization, a requisite recently set out by the EU Green Claims Directive. 

In order for the food industry to meet its net-zero commitments, the complex challenge of environmental data, scoring and governance must be addressed. The integration of Foundation Earth into EIT Food is a step in the development of the alliance which will seek to work with industry, policymakers and consultancies to ensure the delivery of large-scale impact in the sector.

“Over the last three years, Foundation Earth has led the European-wide drive towards the environmental scoring of food and drink products,” says Jago Pearson, outgoing chairman of Foundation Earth. “Our work now provides the building blocks for providing consumers with the information they need to make more environmentally-friendly buying choices and food producers with the credible information they need to innovate in a more sustainable way.”

Foundation Earth’s Chief Executive Cliona Howie will now become the Director of Data Impact Systems at EIT Food, with responsibility for the International Alliance for Food Impact Data.

“Joining forces with EIT Food will foster wider collaboration across all those fragmented initiatives that are individually working on the environmental foot-printing of food and drink products,” Howie says. “Those efforts are currently constrained by limited resources, which has slowed progress towards a single European-wide system. This new alliance will help put an end to unnecessary competition and enable us to leverage a new platform to convene a real solution with a clear roadmap, in the public service. Our focus will be on driving large scale impact that works across the whole food system and transforming the environmental credentials of the continent’s food and drink industry.”

KEYWORDS: data acquisition data analysis environmental impact Europe

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